Use data area in UIM menu?

["Goodbar, Loyd (AFS-Water Valley)" <LGoodbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I didn't find anything to cover this, but is there a way to show the
contents of a data area in a UIM menu?

We have "departmental" menus, about 40 of them. A programmer before me wrote
individual menus for each department, so the floor people could type GO
WV182 or GO WV282 to get to that specific menu. Obviously, it's a PITA to
maintain if new programs are needed, or if we need to add a department.
These are SDA/program menus, with a DDS and CL for each department.
Currently, an initial screen asks for the department and routes to the
individual menu.

Assuming all the departmental menus are identical (they should be), I plan
to write a UIM menu to replace the department menus. My plan was for an
initial signon program to create a data area in QTEMP and use a menu option
to fill in the department number. That department gets stored in QTEMP's
data area. Programs driven from the department menu would read the data area
for the department and act accordingly. I want to show the department on the
menu itself (current or active department), and was hoping UIM could do
that. If not, I will make a generic program menu to suffice.

Thanks,
Loyd

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Loyd Goodbar
Programmer/Analyst
BorgWarner Incorporated
Air/Fluid Systems, Water Valley, MS